Octopuses don’t have eight legs. They have two legs and six arms.

Boru

A decade ago, I found out that the reason "Engrish" is a thing is because Japan's teachers try and teach English like it's Japanese, completely different grammatical structures be damned.




Today, I found out that South Korea's approach to teaching it more rigorous, the vast majority of high school students have to take a test so hard that I suspect even most native English speakers would struggle with it just so they have a chance at going to a good university.

When Madonna released the Like a Prayer music video on MTV, christian groups worldwide including the Vatican condemn Pepsi's links with Madonna and called for a global boycott of Pepsi and its subsidiaries, including KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut.

Pope John Paul II involved himself in the matter and encouraged fans to boycott the singer in Italy. Protests prompted Italian state television network RAI and Madonna's record company WEA to not air the video there. The video was also deemed offensive by the Christian fundamentalist American Family Association (AFA). Madonna stated that "art should be controversial, and that's all there is to it", about the controversy.

Most TV stations banned the music video, but MTV remained one of the only channels to air the music video on heavy rotation.

(November 2, 2022 at 9:40 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: When Madonna released the Like a Prayer music video on MTV, christian groups worldwide including the Vatican condemn Pepsi's links with Madonna and called for a global boycott of Pepsi and its subsidiaries, including KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut.

Pope John Paul II involved himself in the matter and encouraged fans to boycott the singer in Italy. Protests prompted Italian state television network RAI and Madonna's record company WEA to not air the video there. The video was also deemed offensive by the Christian fundamentalist American Family Association (AFA). Madonna stated that "art should be controversial, and that's all there is to it", about the controversy.

Most TV stations banned the music video, but MTV remained one of the only channels to air the music video on heavy rotation.

I can’t claim to be much of a Madonna fan, but anyone who can give the Catholic Church a case of the howling fantods is alright by me.

Boru

Professor Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion has been downloaded 3 million times in Saudi Arabia.

(November 2, 2022 at 8:34 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Professor Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion has been downloaded 3 million times in Saudi Arabia.

An admirable trait of most Muslim is that they'll read and study heathen material, if only to subjectively interpret it in favor of their religious bias.

Something I probably should have known was a thing but somehow didn't until Dreading's new video on John DuPont: prosthetic testicles.

(November 2, 2022 at 9:53 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Something I probably should have known was a thing but somehow didn't until Dreading's new video on John DuPont: prosthetic testicles.

They've had Neuticles for dogs for years.  Not sure why...but there ya go.

Giancarlo Esposito is half-black and half-Italian, with approximately zero Latin-American heritage.

Also, never in a million years would you guess that, 20 years after this, the same guy who played this jackass who hijacked a taxi ride would make the role of his career as a soft-spoken, sadistic meth kingpin.

'The Matrix' movies are actually about gender transitioning

Quote:The films’ writers, Lana and Lily Wachowski, are both trans, and Lily once stated that the films ought to be viewed as such.

“I love that people are talking about the Matrix movies with a trans narrative,” Lily once said.

She added, “That was the original intention, but the world wasn’t quite ready yet."

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/lily-wachow...ans-story/